London 2012: SAS build top secret base in Olympic Park

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Daily Mail, 3 November 2011
Ready: The SAS will be on standby to swoop
if there is a terrorist strike at the Olympics



http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/london-2012-olympic-games/2011/11/03/lond on-2012-sas-build-top-scret-base-on-olympics-park-to-combat-potential- terrorist-attacks-115875-23533880/


London 2012: SAS build top secret base on Olympics Park to combat potential terrorist attacks

Daily Mirror, 3 November 2011



The SAS will play a key role in Olympics security with elite troops ready to swoop via the Thames in the event of a terror attack.

A fleet of high-powered military inflatables are set to be kept on standby on the east London riverside to dispatch special forces in the event of a Mumbai-style terror attack.

Security sources denied reports that an underground bunker was being developed as part of the major security operation.

But the SAS is understood to have been assisting the Metropolitan Police in attempts to avoid an atrocity next summer.

Several anti-terrorism exercises have been carried out at the London Olympics Village amid fears of armed sieges or sniper attacks.

Units, including members of Scotland Yard's CO19 wing, will be armed with pistols, carbines and night vision goggles.

They will be supported by dog handlers, officers trained in directing searches and hostage negotiators.

Senior officers plan to keep the teams out of sight of the public but able to respond to a serious incident within minutes.

They are one of three layers of armed officers securing events alongside plainclothes bodyguards and uniformed patrols.

One drill, staged over three days at the accommodation complex, involved both police and SAS working in unison earlier this year.

The Olympics is set to be one of the biggest security tests on British soil in modern history, with a £600 million budget set aside to keep the games safe.

Police face numerous challenges from protecting runners holding the Olympic torch to security at dozens of venues and small-scale parties and protests.

The operation is expected to consume around 2.5% of all police resources and there are fears it could impact on everyday policing elsewhere.

The majority of events are taking place in the London and Dorset areas, but every force in the country will be involved in security.

About 360 extra Met officers are being taken on in addition to mutual aid from other forces as part of the major security effort.

But the staffing plan was drawn up before the Government's spending review, it was disclosed this week.

Addressing the London Assembly at City Hall, the force's head of resources, Anne McMeel, expressed concern about the impact of the austerity drive.

She said: "Over the last two years the numbers have been shrunken and that makes redeploying into the organisation a tougher call."

Eleven Israeli athletes and coaches were killed after terrorists took hostages at the 1972 Munich Games.


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related news:


Algerian refugee banned from UK flights over terror attack fears

by Chris Hughes, Daily Mirror, 4 November 2011

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/11/04/algerian-refugee-b anned-from-uk-flights-over-terror-attack-fears-115875-23536290/


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from the archives:


British government: We wasted millions chasing wrong terrorist threats

propaganda alert by Cem Ertür, 911Blogger, 6 June 2011

http://911blogger.com/news/2011-06-10/british-government-we-wasted-mil lions-chasing-wrong-terrorist-threats


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[fish5133]

seems a bit silly having SAS in inflatables on the river. Why not just have them posted at the stadium-- they would be on hand then instead of having to moor up or navigate mud and run ashore. OR does someone know something to keep them just far enough away from the stadium but close enough to justify the drills

[Disco_Destroyer]

Well said fish

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I would put the Special Boat Service (SBS) in the Thames (rather than the SAS). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Boat_Service

Anyway it looks like the US have spotted similar flaws...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/nov/13/us-worried-london-olympics -security-2012

[fish5133]

Talking about stationing a battery of SAMs (surface to air missiles) near the stadium (Apparently as happened at Beijing).

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[fish5133]

Will there be a dancing Israeli team at the Olympics?

If Israel launch a premptive strike on Iran (if they already havnt via Mossad ) That will certainly make the Israeli team a more likely terror threat (real or false)

[Mark Gobell]

Mind. Boggling.

[fish5133]

Agh the worlds a safer place indeed ! yawn. Id rather have it when it wasnt as safe and we didnt bother with all these cameras, security etc.

News reporter on Raduio 5 said "military hardware will be used!" I certainly hope not.

So we have SAMS and RAF fighter planes at the ready-- for what. ? I suppose the scenario is that a hijacked plane is better blown to pieces that will rain down all over London than the plane hitting a target.

I hope they have thought about the terrorists who might be hiding inside the trojan pommel horse

[Mark Gobell]

The problem with spending all of that, apparently, scarce-as-rocking-horse-pooh cash on olympic insecurity, is that back in the real world of actual, police and "security service" performance in the metropolis and elsewhere, experience has shown that all it takes, is for a single officer to have a full bladder at the wrong time and you're dead anyway.

But not by the hands of terrorists. Your grieving loved ones would, at least, understand that.

When those that are supposed to protect us are taking-the-pee, experience tells us that we're all only a short bus ride away from receiving several "security service" dumdums, into your brain.

As far as we know, the truth seems to be that no actual, incredibly-hard-to-find-real-terrorists have been stopped by being shot or murdered by those whom we pay to protect us, only innocent civilians. Real world experience shows that you don't have to be armed or even dangerous, to end up being shot or shot dead, at the hands of those you imagined would save you.

Whilst not being able to actually count and therefore even consider, the known unknowns of the off-balance-sheet-terrorism-counting-stats from Thames House and it's affiliates, you know, the quad-zillion plots that have been foiled that we cannot be told about and therefore cannot know about, other than the solitary claim that they each share a single attribute called "real", it can be a bit of a struggle to quantify and assign any value that such, alleged activity might render from the public purse.

One exception to this that comes to mind, or rather, has never left it, would be the dirty bomb warning issued by HMG on Bush's election birthday in 2002. That warning of impending radiological doom was one of the known about knowns. We could be trusted with the supposed fact that we were all about to get fried, at least that much was clear.

Until the warning was promptly withdrawn only hours later.

Attribute = "mistake" for the warning or the plot or both ?

How does that even happen ?

Of course, we're all extremely grateful for the actual, real results that are said to be achieved, even though nothing actually went bang.

You know, those giant billboard, promotional extravanganzas that are made so highly visible that they dominate focus for quite a while. You know, the ones we are told about, over and over and over so that, eventually, it becomes impossible for any of us not to have any knowledge of them.

We're all very grateful, not least because they are hard to ignore and clearly demonstrate value for money in the "civvies not dead" carried forward column, but also because, even more significantly, all of those cases not only share or appear to share, the "real" attribute found in their too dangerous to know about, hidden cousins, they also share one other common attribute called "just-in-time" or "phew - that was close".

Luckily, the smoke detector based dirty bomb plot that we are told carried the attribute = "real" in 2004, was foiled, we are told, just in time, so we didn't actually get a dirty bomb in the end. Just like in 2002.

Real, imagined or otherwise.

Phew - that was close.

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The Guardian, 16 December 2011





The Scotsman, 16 December 2011

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http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/16/18702893.php

British government: 13,500 troops to be deployed for the London 2012 Olympics




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compiled by Cem Ertür

16 December 2011








Warship in the Thames for 2012 Olympics (*)

by Owen Gibson, The Guardian, 16 December 2011

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The Sun, 17 January 2012





The Independent, 30 January 2011

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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4065605/Olympic-security-sec rets-left-on-train.html


Olympic security secrets left on train

• Blunder cop mislaid 2012 Games dossier
• Files could reveal police tactics to terrorists


by Stephen Moyes and Mike Sullivan, The Sun, 17 January 2012

[fish5133]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4073059/Olympics-news-Marine s-and-elite-cops-in-terror-drill-on-Thames.html

MORE than 100 Royal Marines and elite Met coppers took to the Thames yesterday to practise James Bond-style combat tactics against Olympic terror threats.
Armed officers joined forces with Royal Marines to scream down the waterway in high speed boats as a MK8 Lynx chopper hovered overhead.

It was a rare glimpse of the police and military might that will make this summer's Games the safest ever — and looked like scenes straight from a 007 adventure.

For four days military and police units have run a host of challenging exercises to ensure security plans can be delivered without a hitch.

Potential terror threats include a hostage siege aboard one of the Clipper boats ferrying tourists up the Thames.

Another could see fanatical nutcases trying to sail a bomb up the Thames to strike the Houses of Parliament or other major landmarks.

If such a deadly mission were launched it would be met by 44 Met police officers and more than 90 hardened Royal Marines armed to the teeth in a range of vessels.

The teams practised forcing a Clipper boat to stop in its tracks.

Rehearsing emergency ... elite Met Police took part in the Thames manouvres
Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison, National Olympic Security Coordinator, said: "There is no specific intelligence of a threat but we would be failing in our duty if we didn't plan for it.

"This is part of a series of exercises between us and the Royal Navy to deal with escalating scenarios."


Impressive ... 100 Royal Marines and elite Met coppers took to the Thames todaySpecialist armed officers from the Marine Policing Unit used the rehearsals to help the Marines learn about the Thames.

Allison added: "All of our planning is designed to mitigate against potential risks during the summer of 2012, and this is an example of where we will be using specialist military capability to support us.



Speed ... specialist armed officers from the Marine Policing Unit"This will be a summer like no other in London. The Thames runs through the very heart of our capital and will be a popular place for people who want to be part of Olympic spirit.

"This is all part of our planning to ensure this summer's events take place safely and securely."


Royal Marine Major Paul Stitson, of 539 Assault Squadron, said: "What we've been doing is developing our local knowledge of the Thames. It's an area of water we don't know very well.

"We've got the capabilities and the skills and we're training ourselves against the known threats and we're preparing for the unknown."


James Brokenshire, Minister for Crime and Security, said: "This exercise forms part of the comprehensive testing and exercise programme that is crucial in securing the Games.

"We are leaving nothing to chance to ensure we deliver a safe and secure Games that London, the UK and the world can enjoy."

During the drills the Met used four rigid inflatable crafts and a command and control launch.

They joined 94 military personnel and boats including four Offshore Raiding Craft, two Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel, two Rigid Inflatable Boats plus a patrol boat and a Lynx chopper.
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http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/media-centre/news/olympic-venues-security -speech


excerpt from: Home Secretary RUSI olympic security conference speech

[Transcript of UK Home Secretary Theresa May's speech at the Olympic and Paralympic Security Conference 2012, Royal United Services Institute, 25 January 2012]

Home Office website, 25 January 2012

[Mark Gobell]

[Frazzel]

BLOOD, SWEAT & GEAR: THE HUMAN COST OF THE LONDON OLYMPICS ///
Saturday, 24th March, 10.30am
Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial Street, E1
This summer, global sportswear brands will be expecting a bumper pay
day thanks to their association with the London Olympics but the
products they sell and profits they make are based on the exploitation
and abuse of workers in poorer countries. On Saturday 24 March 2012,
join War on Want, Battersea & Wandsworth TUC and community groups for
a day of discussion and workshops on how we how we take the fight to
the sportswear companies, build solidarity and better links with
Bangladeshi garment workers, and examine the impact of global sporting
events on local communities. Spaces are limited. Register at
www.waronwant.org.

[fish5133]

seems like we are being conditioned to expect an attack--borders open, security files lost, dangerous clerics on the loose, sas squads on the Thames to prevent 3 cruise liners from being hijacked and sailed into the Olympic Stadium, and of course all linked to Iran via the working relationship that Alciada and Iran have forged according to Sky intelligence sources.

[Mark Gobell]

[Mark Gobell]

[Mark Gobell]

Olympic Games risk going over budget as cost hits £11bn, say MPs

Organising committee criticised as security bill more than doubles, but government rejects parliamentary verdict

Rajeev Syal and Owen Gibson
The Guardian, Friday 9 March 2012
Article history

Olympic Stadium

Under scrutiny: The Olympic stadium at Stratford in east London, with Anish Kapoor’s ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture. The G4S contract to guard it and other venues is now worth £284m. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

The overall cost of the 2012 Olympics to the public purse has risen to around £11bn while security costs at Olympic venues have more than doubled, a report by parliament's spending watchdog has warned.

The public accounts committee has calculated that the cost of the Olympics is overrunning its £9.3bn budget once unaccounted-for costs are included. The government rejected the committee's claim.

The budget increase could have been lower if the government and the Olympic authorities had taken a tougher stance over price negotiations with its main private contractor G4S, the committee said.

Margaret Hodge, committee chair, said MPs were particularly concerned about significant increases in the security bill and said questions should be asked about London's organising committee Locog.

"Locog now needs more than twice the number of security guards it originally estimated and the costs have roughly doubled. It is staggering that the original estimates were so wrong. Locog has had to renegotiate its contract with G4S for venue security from a weak negotiating position and there is a big question mark over whether it secured a good deal for the taxpayer," she said.

Locog's original estimate for the number of security guards in and around the venues was 10,000 – a "finger in the air estimate", according to the PAC report. The government announced in December that figure has more than doubled to 23,700. Security costs from the Olympics budget for venue security have risen from £282m to £553m in just a year.

An initial deal with G4S worth £86m had been signed in December 2010. But the following year this had to be rewritten as Locog received further advice about the needs for an increase in security provisions. As a result, G4S's contract increased to £284 million.

Estimates for venue security could have been better informed at an earlier date, and that late planning undermined the government's negotiating position and ability to drive down costs, the committee claims.

Due to significant increases in the cost of venue security, the likelihood of staying within the overall £9.3bn budget for funding from the public purse is very finely balanced, the report states.

Locog's chief executive, Paul Deighton, told the committee in December that he had just £5m spare in his separate privately-raised budget of £2bn. "We have £93m contingency and our expectation of risks is £88m, so we are very, very finely balanced," he said, although he is very optimistic of not going over budget.

Hodge said: "Taking into account costs outside the package, the full cost to the public of the Games and legacy projects is already heading for around £11bn."

The Olympics minister, Hugh Robertson, said last month that he was confident the project would be delivered for less than £9.3bn, claiming the latest projections showed that more than £100m would remain in the contingency pot.

A Department for Culture, Media and Sport spokesman said that ministers do not recognise the committee's figure of £11bn.

"The cost of purchasing the Olympic Park land will ultimately come back to the public purse through the resale of the land after the Games and was therefore not included."

He added: "Funding for the legacy programmes, that the committee refer to, comes from existing business-as-usual budgets and we have been clear about this.

"These are for projects designed to capitalise on hosting London 2012 but are not an additional Olympic cost.

"We are completely committed to delivering on Lord Coe's promise to use the Games to inspire a generation to choose sport."

The Home Office said: "The venue security budget will fund venue security personnel, the associated recruitment and training costs, as well as search and screening equipment that will protect more than 100 competition and non-competition venues across the United Kingdom.

"In all the decisions taken about Olympic security we are determined to secure the best value for the taxpayer while delivering on our promise of a safe and secure Games."



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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/security-chiefs-identify-more-tha n-150-751035


Security chiefs identify more than 150 threats to the London Olympic Games

Ministers, police and military bosses have drawn up detailed plans to deal with risks that could “­threaten the continuity” of the Games

by Mark Hamilton, Sunday Mirror, 4 March 2012


Security chiefs have identified 150 potential threats to the Olympics, including terror attacks and a Chernobyl-style nuclear disaster.

Ministers, police and military bosses have drawn up detailed plans to deal with risks that could “­threaten the continuity” of the Games.

More than a third are ­terror-related, but organisers are also preparing for cyber attacks, infectious disease outbreaks, energy failure, strikes and serious traffic disruption.

A Cabinet Office source said: “The Games will undoubtedly see a very large number of minor and probably several major incidents.”

Security bosses have warned the Olympics could be hit by a ­“catastrophic” Level 3 ­emergency such as a 9/11-style attack or nuclear accident.

Level 2 incidents could include a terror attack on a smaller scale than 9/11 or outbreak of animal disease.

And Level 1 incidents may include major ­protests, severe weather or a “limited” ­terrorist incident.

The massive security ­operation will be in place from the start of the Torch Relay on May 19 until the P­aralympics end on ­September 9.

An Olympic Intelligence Centre has been set up to assess all information on threats.

David Cameron will hold monthly Cabinet Office ­Briefing Rooms meetings in the run-up to the Games.

And the Army has been asked to place a 24-hour guard on the Olympic Torch as it tours the country. They will also use a TA centre in the capital to launch air operations.

Around 13,500 troops will be involved in the £553million operation around the country, along with police and 20,000 security guards.

A security source said: “This is a massive operation, the like of which we haven’t seen in this country for ­decades. Nothing is being left to chance.”

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[Mark Gobell]

London (CNN) -- Six months to the day before Opening Ceremonies, builders have handed the Olympic Village over to the London 2012 organizers.

The first of 16,000 beds have been delivered as organizers start to fit out the rooms.

"We are starting the huge process to install essential facilities and services ready to welcome competitors from around the world in six months' time," Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London 2012 Organizing Committee said in a press release issued early Friday.

The beds will soon be joined by 11,000 sofas and even 5,000 toilet brushes, say organizers.

The Summer Games run from July 27 through August 12.

Olympic Village, a huge housing complex of some 2,800 apartments within walking distance of the stadium in East London, has already been sold as part of the post-games legacy plans.

Nearly 1,400 of the apartments were sold in 2009 for $400 million and will be rented by local governments for subsidized housing. The remainder was sold to a consortium, including the Qatari government, as part of a $800 million deal to own and manage the entire village.

Local campaigners have pushed for more of the apartments to be social housing as part of the organizer's pledge to regenerate the area post-games.

The original plan was for the developer Lend Lease to raise the funding privately to build the village, but the work started in 2008 at the height of the financial crisis. The government decided instead [for the taxpayer] to the foot the reported $1.6 billion bill and is unlikely to recoup the entire cost of the housing.

The complex will be known as East Village once it is turned over to renters and homeowners.


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[Mark Gobell]

Olympics: MI5 briefs Cabinet amid fears of attacks outside London

Terrorists could target Olympic venues outside London in a plot to attack spectators and athletes at this summer’s Games, security sources have warned.

A security exercise takes place along the River Thames
Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

By Tim Ross and Robert Winnett

6:30AM GMT 21 Mar 2012

The head of MI5 took the rare step of briefing the whole Cabinet on the terrorism threat to the UK in the run up to the Olympics.

Theresa May, the Home Secretary, also updated colleagues on legislative efforts to address the threat from terrorism.

The main Olympic Park in east London will be protected by the biggest peace-time security operation ever seen, including the possible deployment of missile batteries to protect the capital from attack from the air.

However, The Daily Telegraph understands that senior security officials have become concerned that other sites around the country could also become targets.

Olympic and Paralympic rowing events will take place at Eton Dorney, near Windsor Castle, 25 miles west of the capital, road cycling will be held at Brands Hatch racing circuit in Kent, while sailing events will be based in Weymouth.
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Other venues include stadiums in Newcastle, Coventry, Cardiff, and Manchester.

During a 40-minute meeting in Parliament yesterday, the MI5 director-general, Jonathan Evans, briefed Cabinet ministers on the threats facing the country in the period leading up to the Games.

It is thought to be the first time that Mr Evans has addressed a full meeting of the Prime Minister senior team.

Downing Street played down the meeting, describing Mr Evans’s briefing as a “routine” update. It was not prompted by new intelligence or a change in the assessment of the terrorism threat level, which remained “substantial”, a Number 10 spokesman said.

Mr Cameron's official spokesman said Mr Evans had provided “an overall assessment of the current terrorist threat to the UK”.

He added: “There was some discussion of the Olympics and preparations in that context.

“It was a broad discussion about terrorism and an assessment of the current threat and a run-through of the various issues that the Government is dealing with on the legislative side, such as the fact that we have replaced control orders with TPIMS (Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures) and the various measures that are being considered in the context of the security and justice Bill.”

Mr Evans regularly takes part in meetings of the National Security Council - created by Mr Cameron shortly after the 2010 election to bring together senior ministers, security chiefs and military top brass at 10 Downing Street.

But the Number 10 spokesman said: “The Prime Minister is keen that some of those discussions that would generally happen at the NSC are occasionally brought to the full Cabinet, so that those Cabinet ministers who are not members of National Security Council are briefed and get an opportunity to discuss the issues.”

The military and police have been preparing for the Olympic security operation since London was awarded the Games in 2005.

Royal Marines have held training exercises to prepare for a possible terrorist attack using the River Thames.

During an exercise in January, security teams in speed boats practised storming a river cruiser and climbing onto its roof, with air support from Navy helicopters.

Counter terrorism officers are also facing an unpredictable threat from “lone wolf” attackers, who have radicalised themselves.

They are seen as posing some of the greatest risks to Olympics security because they are not operating under the direction of al Qaida and remain undetected before launching an attack.


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[Mark Gobell]

The Independent

MI5 puts all 3,800 agents on Olympic watch

Agents summoned back to UK as total bill to counter London threats rises to £1bn

Kim Sengupta

Monday 26 March 2012

MI5 is carrying out its biggest operation since the Second World War with almost all of its 3,800 staff mobilised for the London Olympics which will take place amid rising concerns over the possibility of terrorist attacks.

Annual leave will be restricted at the agency and agents who would have been involved in counter-espionage have been moved to terrorism duties.

Although there is said to be "chatter" among jihadist groups about the Olympics, security officials have refused to discuss if cogent plots have been discovered. Senior sources say that in the last major sporting event seen as a target, the Commonwealth Games in India, planning by terrorist groups began around three months before the event started.

The Independent understands the Security Service has installed a new monitoring and intelligence gathering system to ensure safety of the Games. This includes security checks on more than 540,000 people, monitoring militant groups and also liaising with foreign intelligence services.

All leave for security agents during the Games has been cancelled or has been heavily restricted.

The new system developed by MI5 for the Olympics, including computarisation, details of which are classified, has been in place since last October. It is deemed to have been highly successful, and will be kept in use after the Games have finished.

Security checks on those attending the Games, under the overall control of the Home Office, will be carried out for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) and include the athletes, their families, officials, the media and workers. The company G4S, which has the contract for providing security, is now sifting through 50,000 job applications all of which must be vetted.

While MI5 says it does not need extra government funding for its Olympic security operations, with the figure needed having been included in its previous funding round, the costs to the public have risen from the original estimate of £600m to £1bn.

One of reasons for this was a under-estimation made by LOCOG of the number of staff needed for the 34 Olympics venues. The original figure of 10,000 has now been raised to 20,000.

MI5's role would be to specifically focus on those who pose a terrorist threat to the event.

When it comes to foreign nationals, for example, members of the regimes of Syria or Iran,who may be accused of human rights abuse but are not seen as a risk to national security will not be banned under the Security Service recommendations. The Home Office can, however, refuse such people visas on grounds that their "presence in the UK would not prove conductive to the public good."

Last week, during the killing spree of Islamist Mohammed Merah in France, the head of the UK Security Service gave a briefing in Downing Street on the preparations that are being made for the Olympics.

In what is believed to be the first occasion he has addressed the full cabinet, Jonathan Evans laid out the scenario of threats that face the Games and the counter-action which is now being taken. MI6, GCHQ – the government's electronic listening base – the police's anti-terrorist and special branches are all currently engaged in a huge trawl of intelligence.

Around 13,500 military personnel, 4,000 more than are currently serving in Afghanistan, will be deployed on the security operation. The Royal Navy's biggest ship, the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, will be moored on the Thames estuary with Royal Marines on board, while HMS Bulwark will be present for events around Weymouth.

Surface-to-air missiles will be placed around the capital, which will also see the arrival of an SAS unit from Hereford. MI5 expects the numbers of reports of suspicious activity will rise as the start of the Olympic Games draws nearer. Many of these reported threats may turn out to be not credible. But there may be no time, say officials, to perform the normal security process of watching and tracking before taking action because of risks entailed in waiting.

The police may have to take action immediately, as they did when six Algerian street cleaners were arrested on the Pope's visit in 2010, after the cleaners were overheard allegedly musing about "doing something".

They were released without charge.

3,800 MI5 staff to be mobilised

£1billion cost of Olympic security operations

20,000 staff needed for the 34 Olympic venues

120 heads of state to visit UK

More than 540,000 visitors' security checked


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[Mark Gobell]

Daily SySograph repeating this soaraway nonsense "exclusive" by Simon Hughes, Chief Investigative Reporter at Murdoch's toilet paper The Sun - Al-Qaeda plotting cyanide attack at Games


London 2012 Olympics: terrorists 'plotting cyanide poison hand cream attack'

Terrorists linked with al-Qaeda are plotting a cyanide poison attack on London Olympics by mixing chemicals with hand cream, it has been reported.

7:45AM BST 26 Mar 2012

Extremists have posted “detailed instructions” on a website with links to the terror group on how launch an attack this summer’s games in the capital.

One member, called Abu Hija Ansari claimed the cyanide should be mixed with an unidentified hand cream so it could be absorbed through human skin, according to The Sun.

Writing in Arabic, he said anyone planning such an attack should wear "medical gloves" as they produce their lethal mixture.

"Through skin: 1 – cyanide, 2 – skin cream,” he reportedly said.

“Mix the ingredients. The skin cream will open the pores in the skin and speed up the absorption and effectiveness of the poison."
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The newspaper said they were able to access the website, which has 17,000 members worldwide and known links to six al-Qaeda terrorists, using a false identity.

A second extremist, who has not been identified, also wrote on the website: "It is a good idea and you need to plan well."

Writing under a logo of the 2012 Games, she said: "It's time to prepare for the event, as once again they are interfering with innocent Muslims."

Britain's security services are on high alert for any form of attack on the Olympics, which start on July 27 in the main stadium in Stratford, east London.

Last week Jonathan Evans, the MI5 director-general, briefed the Cabinet on the terrorist threats facing the UK in the run-up to the London Olympics.

Also last week it emerged that two convicted terrorists, including one involved in the “liquids” plot to blow up trans-Atlantic passenger jets, were back on the streets after being released from prison.

Bernard Jenkin, the Conservative MP for Essex North and chairman of the all-party homeland security group, told the newspaper: "I hope the individuals are identified so action can be taken.

“Those who believe there is no terrorist threat are living in cloud cuckoo land."

Neither the government, Scotland Yard nor the Security Services have commented on the reports.


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Regurgitating old rubbish again. As per usual ...

[Frazzel]

WHOSE OLYMPICS …?
Saturday, 14th April, 11am
Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate London EC2M 4QH
Mass action planning meeting – with special guests.
We’ve heard about
the soaring costs, debt, repression, pollution, displacement and lack
of consultation.
We’ve been told of the drones to be deployed, the
renewable targets ignored and neighbourhoods pushed sideways for a
giant consumer playground. The laws have even been rewritten to deter
us from disrupting the glorified three-week party. And we’ve been
fighting back for months – and even years – with activist groups
working to protect Greenwich Park, save Wanstead Flats, occupy Leyton
Marsh, oust Dow… the list the goes on. But now the Olympics are upon
us. Most of the damage has been done. It’s time to come together,
uniting behind the common cause that people from London to Portland
and beyond are sick of being sacrificed for this giant corporate
bonanza.

[fish5133]

Bit ironic that Coca Cola and Mcdonalds are providing millions of drinks and meals at this pinnacle of fitness talent.

[Frazzel]

LAUNCH OF GREENWASH GOLD 2012 CAMPAIGN ///
Monday, 16th April, 7pm
Amnesty International UK Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn
Yard, London EC2A 3EA.
Meredith Alexander, the ex Olympic ‘Ethics Csar’ who stepped down over
controversial sponsorship decisions, will be introducing members of
communities impacted by Olympic sponsors all over the world, and we
will be launching a new campaign to stop Dow, BP and Rio Tinto from
winning at the 2012 Olympics. Speakers on Rio Tinto will include Zanaa
Jurmed from Mongolia and Cherise Udell from Utah Moms for Clean Air.
Speakers on BP will include Clayton Thomas Muller from the Indigenous
Environmental Network and impacted community members from the Gulf of
Mexico. Drinks and light refreshments available. Sponsored by Bhopal
Medical Appeal, London Mining Network and UK Tar Sands Network.